https://www.electrifying.collopy.net/files/original/b9d31c9accaffa6077f4ab4c155f129d.jpg 911fc00ada1afbfba375088417e5d3e5 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 8" × 10" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource High Voltage Research Laboratory Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource G. Haven Bishop Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Southern California Edison Photographs, Huntington Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1929-01-14 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1868904 Description An account of the resource In 1923, Caltech and the Southern California Edison Company built the High Voltage Research Laboratory, the first university laboratory in the world to feature a million volt transformer. The building, sometimes called High Volts, was only the sixth building on Caltech’s new campus, so it was surrounded more by trees and lawns than by other laboratories. For its time, High Volts was an unusual partnership between a corporation, which supplied electricity and paid most of the $140,000 construction cost, and a university, which provided land. High Volts was architecturally bold: Internally, it was a single large room which held the massive transformer and other electrical apparatus. Edison engineers designed a steel frame, the second constructed in Pasadena. Architect Bertram Goodhue designed the exterior, which used a diamond pattern to provide texture in the absence of windows. Architectural sculptor Lee Lawrie produced a relief over the entry which represented the electrical research performed within. Brought together by members of Caltech’s board of trustees who also served on Edison’s board of directors, the two organizations would share the facility: Edison needed a laboratory in which to test high voltage electrical transmission equipment, including insulators and transmission lines which were later used to transmit electricity to Southern California from the Hoover Dam in Nevada. Caltech physicists, led by Robert Millikan, sought to use high voltage electricity to dismantle the nucleus of the atom. Millikan and his colleagues were not immediately successful in this effort, but in the late 1920s Charles Lauritsen and Ralph Bennett did use the High Volts transformer as a power supply to the world’s first 750,000 volt x-ray tube. A few years later, his student H. Richard Crane modified his own x-ray tube into a particle accelerator, and Caltech physicists joined the founders of the new field of nuclear physics.